Seventh Pay Commission News: Madhya Pradesh Announces Big Bonanza For Doctors

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated a 2000-bed hospital built at a cost of 482 crore, when he made the announcement about the seventh pay commission.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced that doctors in medical colleges in the state will get pay scale based on the seventh pay commission slabs. The benefits will be given from January 1, 2016, along with time-bound increment, as per a report in mpcg.ndtv.in. These medical practitioners will receive increments in five, 10 and 15 years without any compulsion of promotions, the report further said. Mr Chouhan made the announcements a few months before elections in the state.

The Chief Minister inaugurated a 2000-bed hospital built at a cost of 482 crore, when he made the announcement about the seventh pay commission. Foundation stone of Rs 245 crore medical facilities was also laid in the college.

He said that the pay scale of assistant professors in medical colleges would be improved and the rules for shifting of 11 nursing homes in the city would be simplified.